Advertising device.



PATENTED 512.25, 190s.

B. VAN ANTWERP. ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR 21 1907 WITNESSES.-

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PATIENT orrron.

EDWARD VAN ANTWERP, OF DENT, MINNESOTA.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

Application filed March 27. 1907. Serial No. 364.819.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD VAN ANT- WERP, citizen of the United States, residing at Dent, in the countyof Otter Tail and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Advertising Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to advertising devices, but may also be used as a toy.

The principal object is toprovide an automatically moving attractive device for displaying advertisements in store Windows and other places. This object is attained by the novel construction and arrangement of the parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of a portion of the track in Fig. 1 with the .barrel or rolling advertisement carrier on it. Fig. 3 is an enlar ed diametrical section of the ,barrel an cross section of' the track it rests on.

artly sectional view of either one of the elephants in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, i designates a base consisting in the present instance of two boards secured one upon the other with intervening props or supports 2 and 2 by which they are held suliiciently apart to house and conceal an electric wire 4, the prop 2 also helps to bulge the middle of the upper board upward to-give it an incline toward the ends, said board being for that purpose weakened by notches 5 so as not to spring the lower board downward. Upon each end of said base is mounted on a block 6 an elephant 7, made of Wood or other suitable material and partly covered by-a blanket 8, which is only indicated in dotted lines to the right in Fig. 1. The head and trunk of each elephant are made in one piece a pivoted to the body at 9, so that the trunk 10 may swing back and forth. To cause such swinging a piece of iron 11 serving as armature is fixed at the rear of the head of the elephant and periodically attracted ,by an electro-magnet 12, fixed in rear thereof in a cavity 13 formed in the neck or body of the elephant-and concealed by the blanket.

Upon the base 1 is secured ties 14 and metallic rails 15. to form a track, upon which is.

laced a metallic roller 16, which when seen om' the end resembles a barrel and may therefore this specification be called the barre a t ughits shap'eis not confined to the limitation of the vessel usually called by that name.

The operating electric batteries 17 are in the present instance placed inside of one of the elephants through a suitable door or opening (not shown), or they may be put in any other place. near the device. From the batteries extend the usual. wires 1819 to a switch 20, which is on the rheostat principle so that the force of the current passin therethrough may be regulated to ive the barrel more or less speed, and to eep up a fair speed also when the force of the batteries is gradually exhausted. The current passes from the rheostat and returns to it by way of the wire 21, whose branches 4 and extend to the electro-magnets, and the wire 22 which connects with one of the rails. To complete the circuit, a wire 23 passes from each magnet to a contact peg 24 near the end of the trunk of each elephant so that whenever the barrel rolls down one of the inclines and reaches the contact pe it completes the circuit and the magnet HUSH-3S a jerkin pull on the armature 11, whereby the trunt 10 gives the barrel sufficient motion to roll past the highest point of the track, whereupon it is rolled by ravity to the trunk of the other elephant, w ere it receives asimilar push and is thus kept in constant rolling motion from end to end of the The sightv of the performing animals and the rolling barrel attracts the attention of passersvby, and as they look they will read advertisements-printed upon the end or ends of the barrel. Such advertising I prefernular spaces 25 of the barrel heads, While on the inner space 26 the words are printed in horizontal lines as indicated by the blank lines 27. In order to keep said lines always in horizontal position they are printed or painted upon disks 28, fixed at the ends of a shaft 29 journaled axially the barrel heads a weight 31 hold-in always downward, and thereby the lines 0% reading matter in horizontal position. Said disks may preferably be sunk into depressions 33 in. the barrel heads. In thepresent instance the barrel has flanges 32 guiding'at the outer sides of the rails, but it is obvious that such-flanges .may as well be flaced far enou h in on the barrel to be at t e inner sides 0 the rails.

-- The device may be used for advertising ably print" in circular order upon the an and having inside the barrel an arm 30 with ios any class of goods but especially for goods sold in barrels, kegs and similar vessels.

Having thus described my invention, what and impart motion to the rolling body,

' means for passing an electric current to each magnet when the rollingibody closes a circuit by touching the trac either one of the elephants.

In a device of the class'described, a metallic track, an artificial elephant at each end thereof and 'havinglapivoted trunk, a

metallic rolling body on the track, an electroma net operatively related with the trunk of eac elephant to cause the trunk to swing and impart motion to the rolling body, means for passing an electric current. to each magnet when the rolling body closes a circuit by touching the track and the trunk of either one of the elephants, said track being higher in the middle than at the ends.

'3'; In a device of the class described, a metallic track, an artificial elephant at each end thereof and having a pivoted trunk, a

metallic rolling body on the track, an" electroma net operatively related with thetrunk of. eac elephant to. cause the trunk to swing and impart motion to the relling body, means forpassing an electric current to each magnet when the rolling body closes a circuit by touching the track and? the trunk of either one of the elephants, said rolling body being cylindrical, and having flanges to guide it along the track.

4. In a device of the class described, a

metallic track, an artificial elephant at each end thereof and having a pivoted trunk, a

(and the trunk of metallie rolling body on the track, an electromag et opleratively related with the trunk of eac elep. ant to cause the trunk to swing and impart, motion to the rolling body, means for passing an electric current to each magnet when the rolling bodycloses a circuit by touching the track and the trunk of either one ofthe elephants,"said rolling body resembling a cylinder or barrel, an axial shaft journaled in the ends thereof, devices fixed on the ends of the shaft outside the barrel adapted to receive an inscription or the like and a Weighted arm on the shaft inside the barrel, to keep the devices in position.

5. An advertising device having a metallic track and a cylindrical or barrel-shaped metallic body adapted to'roll onthe track, the exhibited end of the body having an anhula-r space and within such space a disk, said disk being revoluble at the center of the annular space and weighted so as to prevent its rolling with the barrel.

:6. An advertising device comprising an artificial elephant with pivoted trunk and an electro-magnet operating the trunk to swing it on its pivot, a track, and a metallic body adapted to be rolled on the trackby said trunk and tohave'inscriptions or the like upon it,

7 An artificial elephant having a pivoted trunk and an electro magnet arranged to swing the trunk on the, pivot when an electro current is applied to' the magnets, a track, and a metallic body adapted to be rolled on the track by said trunk and to haveinscrip tions or the like'upon it, said track being inclined toward the animal.

In-testimony whereof I afiix' my signature, in presence of two witnesses. 1 EDWARD VAN ANTWER P. 'Witnesses:

F. A. RIEMAN, O. RoBINsoN. 

